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Definition of Betrims
1. betrim [v] - See also: betrim
Lexicographical Neighbors of Betrims
Literary usage of Betrims
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shakespeare Studies, and Essay on English Dictionaries by Thomas Spencer Baynes, Lewis Campbell (1896)
"... Which spongy April at thy hest betrims, To make cold nymphs chaste crowns ;
and thy broom-groves, Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves ". ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1853)
"“Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims, Which spongy April at thy best betrims,
To make cold nymphs chaste crowns.” Tempest, Act 1V. Sc. 1. ..."
3. History of English Literature by Henri Van Laun, Hippolyte Taine (1871)
"... them to keep ; Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims, "Which spongy April
at thy hest betrims, To make cold nymphs chaste crowns . ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"... Which spongy April at thy hest betrims To make cold nymphs chaste crowns; and
thy brown grovas, Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves, ..."
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